Retail Store · Texas

Ross store 249

Arlington, TX · ~62 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ross store 249 runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Store workplace, earning a grade D.

Ross store 249: 4.3 TCR = 126% of Retail Store BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross store 249 safety composite

Ross store 249 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Ross store 249: 3.4 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.87× in 2020

Ross store 249's TCR rose 4.6 from 3.4 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Arlington, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 126% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #302/489
  • PHOTO 1170 - Ames
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1170 - Ames (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ross store 249 in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Ross store 249 averages 4.3 TCR (126% of the Retail Store BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Ross store 249 TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.7 · 2020=8 · BLS 3.4

Where Ross store 249 falls in its industry

4,991 Retail Store establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #302 safest of 489 Retail Store employers in Texas.

Ross store 249 (62 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ross store 249
Ross store 249 (62 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ross store 249 has fewer employees than the Retail Store median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 8.0 8.0 2 0 0
2019 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2016 3.4 3.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · TX · Arlington

4,991 Retail Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 475 employers in Arlington, TX · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 1170 - Ames 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1913 - Munster 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 229 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shopko Store #26 (Beloit, WI) 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE EP Energy - Eagle Ford (Dilley) 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Dog Drilling 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koserca Headquearters 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monahans 2790 South Wilma, Monahans, TX 79756 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR GM Arlington Assembly 4,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX Arlington Warehouse 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR TX Arlington 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Texas Health Physician Group 3,831 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 229 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 579 Spartanburg, Sc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1030 North Charleston, Sc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR C53 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 667 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 122 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 356 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1072 62 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.